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6 complete as two beings who have wilted under nearly a half-century of civilization can be expected to survive. We are
humiliated to confess that we are still tied tight by one leg at least to the customary feeding-places. We want mail once
in a while, a store for supplies. If we are permitted to do so in a National park we should be glad to make a little garden,
keep a few chickens a cow - thus become a trifle more independent. Can we do this? But barring these necessities we want
this year to be as simple silent premieval as we can man- 7 age to get. We don't want people, for a while, even the kindest?
, but the different, deep wisdom of trees hills. When you write of the Sequoias at worship at sunset, I read with dim eyes
a heart full of an aching homesickness. x x x x If I were coming north just now I would surely avail myself of your considerate
invitation to talk with you personally. I know we should be friends at once. - for my spirit answers to that which yours speaks
in your books I'm going to take only a dozen or so with us into the wilderness, but at least two of yours 05530